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Episode 237 – Yuletide Cheer! 2023

It’s time for our annual lessons and carols with music, poetry, and more!

Merry Happy and Fa La La La La to You!

Summary: It’s our annual “lessons and carols,” with holiday music, a poem, some alternative holiday traditions, and just a general holly jolly good time.

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Producer for this show: This episode is supported by all of our Patreon listeners. Thank you so much to all of you for making this year and all the other years possible!

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Our holiday playlist this year is:

  • “We Three Kings (Acoustic),” Mark Petrie – Audiosocket
  • “Yorkshire Wassail,” by the Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
  • “Carol of the Bells,” Ivan Luzan – Pixabay
  • “Un Flambeau Jeanette Isabella,” Emma Wallace – Audiosocket
  • “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” – Western Horizon Productions – Audiosocket
  • Incidental Music: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Music Box Version)” – WaveMaster from Pixabay
  • “Sing We Noel Once More,” by the The Harmony Choristers (Archive.org)
  • “Pat-a-Pan,” by the Concordia Choir (Archive.org)
  • “Wassail Wassail,” Panorama Jazz Band – Audiosocket
  • “Mrs Fogerty’s Christmas,” Trillium – Audiosocket
  • Incidental Music: “In the Bleak Midwinter” – Julius H. from Pixabay
  • “Good King Wenceslas,” by the US Army Band (Archive.org/Public Domain)
  • “Soul Cake,” the Pagan Carolers
  • “O Christmas Tree,” Mike Cole from Pixabay
  • “Silent Night” – Zakhar Valaha – Pixabay
  • Incidental Music: “The Holly and the Ivy” – Leigh Robinson from Pixabay
  • “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (artist permission)

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Transcripts are available on our Transcripts page (NOTE: No transcript available for this episode)

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Promos and Music: All music is licensed from Audio Socket, Pixabay, or the Public Domain, with the exception of “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (used with artist permission).

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Episode 180 – Yuletide Cheer! 2020

Summary:
It’s our annual tradition! We share some old blessings for the new year in song, conversation, and charms this time. Welcome Yule!
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Producers for this show: Heather, WisdomQueen, Jennifer, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Little Wren, Khristopher, Tanner, Fergus from Queer as Folk Magic, Achija of Spellbound Bookbinding, Johnathan at the ModernSouthernPolytheist, Catherine, Payton, Carole, Stephanie, Kat, Breanna, Staci, Montine, Vic from the Distelfink Sippschaft of Urglaawe, Moma Sarah at ConjuredCardea, Jody, AthenaBeth, Bo, Scarlet Pirate, Tim, Bill, Leslie, Sherry, Jenna, Jess, Laura, Abbi, Nicole, AromaG’s Botanica, & Clever Kim’s Curios (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!
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Playlist:

  1. Welcome Winter & Soul Cake – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  2. I Saw Three Ships/Kerry Jig – Morrison Players (AudioSocket)
  3. Miss Fogerty’s Christmas – Trillium (AudioSocket)
  4. Good King Wenceslas – Matthew Ried (AudioSocket)
  5. Deck the Halls – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  6. O Tennenbaum – Nebbe Quartet (FMA)
  7. O Yerusalayme – Ukrainian Village Singers (FMA)
  8. Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  9. In Praise of Yule & Yuletide Carol – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  10. Gloucester Wassail & Boar’s Head Carol – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  11. Here We Come A-Wassailing – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  12. Frosty Morning/Full Rigged Ship – Trillium (AudioSocket)
  13. Silent Night – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  14. Auld Lang Syne – Mike Strickland (AudioSocket)
  15. Da Day Dawn – Samantha Gillogly (Artist Permission)

All music sourced with artist permission (as noted), or from Audio Socket (with license), or from Free Music Archive (CC 2.0 License).

Plough Monday Charms are sourced from Nigel Pennick’s Field & Fen.

You can now also pre-order Cory’s forthcoming book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Image via Pixabay (CCL 2.0)

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Promos and Music:

Incidental Music:

“Silent Night,” by Paul Frietas (AudioSocket); “The Christmas Waltz,” by Scott Kinsey (AudioSocket); “Jingle Bells” and “God Rest Ye,” by Phil Symonds (AudioSocket); “Coventry Carol,” by Jonathan Still (AudioSocket)

All music sourced with artist permission (as noted), or from Audio Socket (with license), or from Free Music Archive (CC 2.0 License).

Our immense thanks to Leigh Ann Hussey, Eli Goldberg, Prometheus Music, and the Pagan Carolers for letting us use their work in this episode.

Special thanks as well to Samantha Gillogly, whose “Da Day Dawn” has become our personal annual tradition.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers!

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Episode 137 – Yuletide Cheer! 2018

Summary:

In our annual holiday episode, we turn to the natural world for carols and lessons on the plants and animals of the Yuletide season.

 

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Producers for this show: Heather, WisdomQueen, Regina, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Little Wren, Khristopher, Tanner, Achija of Spellbound Bookbinding,  Johnathan at the ModernSouthernPolytheist, Catherine, Carole, Debra, Montine, Cynara at The Auburn Skye, Moma Sarah at ConjuredCardea, Jody, Josette, Amy, Victoria, Sherry, Donald, Jenni Love of Broom Book & Candle, & AthenaBeth. (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

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Much of the lore featured in this episode comes from the following books and websites:

 

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 Promos & Music

Music from this episode is licensed from Magnatune unless otherwise noted. “CC License” indicates a Creative Commons 2.0 Share-and-share-alike license.

 

Song List:

  • The Holly & the Ivy – Quire Cleveland
  • Ceremonies for Christmas Eve – Passsamezzo
  • The Holly Witches’ Dance – Harper’s Hamper
  • Ivy is Good – English Ayres
  • Green Grows the Holly – Shira Kammen
  • The Blood-red Rose at Yule – Music for a Winter’s Night
  • Christmas Tree – Emma Wallace
  • Kentucky (Ohio) Wassail – Quire Cleveland
  • Apple Tree Wassail – Shira Kammen
  • Here we Come a-Wassailing – Harper’s Hamper
  • Wassail Song (1913 – Vaughn Williams) – Quire Cleveland
  • While Shepherds Watched their Flocks – Alabama Sacred Harp Singers (Wikimedia – CC License)
  • Shepherd’s Carol to be Sung on New Year’s Day – Passamezzo
  • On Christmas Day – Jean Ritchie (Library of Congress – Public Domain)
  • The Boar’s Head Carol – Harper’s Hamper
  • The Wren in the Furze – Shira Kammen
  • Fowles in the Frith/Bird on a Briar – English Ayres
  • Little Skylark – J. Tucker (used with permission of artist)
  • Da Day Dawn – Samantha Gillogly (used with permission of artist)

 

Incidental Music for this episode includes “O Christmas Tree,” by Jeff Wahl (Magnatune); “Snow Drop,” by Kevin Macleod (Free Music Archive – CC License); and “The Sighful Branches,” by Axletree (Free Music Archive – CC License).

 

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Episode 120 – Yuletide Cheer! 2017

Summary:

In our Yuletide episode, we listen to carols (and of course some wassails), hear a story about an ember-eating ancient creature, and share listener greetings for the season.

 

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Producers for this show: Heather, Jenna, Achija of Spellbound Bookbinding, Corvus, Khristopher, Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Raven Dark Moon, Little Wren, J.C., Mandy, Josette, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Catherine, AthenaBeth, Cynara at The Auburn Skye, Victoria, Johnathan at the ModernSouthernPolytheist, Montine, Regina, Hazel, Michael, Patrick, & Sherry (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

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Special thanks this episode to listeners Achija, AthenaBeth, the young ladies who called in to ask about Krampus, and everyone else who wished us a happy season.

Special thanks as well to the luminous Sylvia V. Linsteadt for sharing a selection from her book, Tatterdemalion, with us during this episode. You can find out more about that book and the artwork of the equally luminous Rima Staines at Hedgespoken.

If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us or leave a comment. We’d love to hear from you!

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 Promos & Music

Playlist:

 

  1. Christmas Rhyme – Ewan MacCarroll (LOC/Lomax Collection)
  2. Apple Tree Wassail – Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  3. Old Chistmas – Boyd Asher ((LOC/Lomax Collection)
  4. The Night Before Christmas – Harry E. Humphrey (Free Music Archive)
  5. What Cheer to a Ground – Quire Cleveland (Magnatune)
  6. Pan Hospordaryu – Ukranian Village Voice (Free Music Archive)
  7. Good King Wenceslas – Maya Solovy (Free Music Archive)
  8. Shchedrik – Kitka (Magnatune)
  9. The Holly & the Ivy – Quire Cleveland (Magnatune)
  10. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella – Aaron DeVries (Free Music Archive)
  11. Bring Us in Good Ale – Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  12. Pat-a-Pan – Steve Eulberg (Magnatune)
  13. Un Enfant Vien De Nuit – Modestus Eugene and the Trinidad and Tobago Singers (LOC/Lomax Collection)
  14. White Christmas – Marigolds Scratch Band (LOC/Lomax Collection)
  15. O Day – Georgia Sea Island Singers (LOC/Lomax Collection)
  16. Song for a Winter’s Night – The Nancies (Free Music Archive)
  17. Solstice Night – J. Tucker (with Artist Permission)
  18. In the Bleak Midwinter – Maya Solovy (Free Music Archive)
  19. “Da Day Dawn,” Samantha Gillogly (With Artist Permission)

 

 Incidental Music: “The Glory of the Kitchen” (Passamezzo – Magnatune); Seth Partridge – Sing We Now of Christmas (Free Music Archive); “Stille Nacht” (Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks – Magnatune); “Winter’s Ritual” and “Treachery is Afoot” (S.J. Tucker); “Constellations,” “Aurora Borealis,” and “Celestial Sphere” (Robert Otto – Magnatune); “Ceremonies for a Christmas Eve – Passamezzo (Magnatune)”

Episode 103 – Yuletide Cheer! 2016

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Summary:

In our annual holiday episode, we listen to carols, share some holiday memories (and a few tears), and talk about how we welcome in the winter.

 

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Producers for this show: Corvus, Diana Garino, Renee Odders, Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Raven Dark Moon, The Witches View Podcast,  Moma Sarah, Molly, Corvus, Catherine, AthenaBeth, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Shannon, Little Wren, Michael M., Jessica, Victoria, Johnathan, and Daniel (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

 

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See “Promos & Music” for a complete track listing.

Check out our latest podcast effort, Chasing Foxfire, which just launched in early October. If you like folklore, this show will be connecting the dots between folk tales, science, nature, pop culture, literature, and more.

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 Promos & Music

Playlist

-Introduction-

  • While Shepherds Watched their Flocks (The Angel of the Lord) – Alabama Sacred Harp Collection (LOC/Lomax Collection)
  • Bethlehem, Bethlehem – Kitka (Magnatune)
  • Soul Cake – Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)

-Carols of the Animals-

-Calling in the Winter-

  • Welcome Winter – Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
  • Nou Is Yole Comen – Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  • This Endris Night – Randall Stroope & the Oxford Choir (Soundcloud)
  • Solstice Night – S.J. Tucker (by artist permission)

-Feasting, Wassailing, and Merrymaking-

  • All and Some – Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
  • Apple Tree Wassail – Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  • The Glory of the Kitchen/Twelfth Eve – Passamezzo (Magnatune)
  • Beat Up the Drum – Passamezzo (Magnatune)

-Traditional Closing-

Incidental music is “The Blud-Red Rose at Yule,” by Music for a Winter’s Eve (Magnatune)

Episode 85 – Yuletide Cheer! 2015

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Episode 85 – Yuletide Cheer! 2015

Summary:

Our annual holiday music show is light on the talk (due to Cory’s recent illness) and heavy on the, well, wassailing. So pour a warm cup of something delicious and enjoy!

 

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Producers for this show: Diana Garino, Renee Odders, Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Raven Dark Moon, Ivory, The Witches View Podcast, Sarah, Molly, Catherine, AthenaBeth, & Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

 

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Promos & Music

The following songs are used through Creative Commons Licenses and distributed as podsafe media, used under a purchased license, or presented with the permission of the artist. Please see the distribution sites for additional information on the artists, their works, and how to purchase more of their music.

 

  1. “Ding Dong Maerrily on High/St. Anne’s Reel,” Keltricity (Soundcloud)
  2. “The Holly Bears a Berry,” Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  3. “Byla Cesta,” Kitka (Magnatune)
  4. “Shchedrik,” Kitka (Magnatune)
  5. “Wassail Song,” Music for a Winter’s Eve (Magnatune)
  6. “Tapster Drynker,” Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  7. “Gloucestershire Wassail,” Keltricity (Soundcloud)
  8. “Bring us in Good Ale,” Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  9. “On Christmas Day in the Morning,” Jean Ritchie (Lomax collection: Library of Congress)
  10. “Old Christmas,” Boyd Asher (Lomax collection: Library of Congress)
  11. “In the Bleak Midwinter,” Emma Radford (Soundcloud)
  12. “Solstice Night,” SJ Tucker (With Artist Permission)
  13. “Patapan,” Lisa Goettel (Soundcloud)
  14. “Fum Fum Fum,” US Army Men’s Chorale (Soundcloud)
  15. “The Wren in the Furze,” Shira Kammen (Magnatune)
  16. “Twelfth Eve/Christmas Cheer/Chestnut Vagary,” Harper’s Hamper (Magnatune)
  17. “Da Day Dawn,” Samantha Gillogly (With Artist Permission)